• You can also use a routing plan for validation. The routing plan object enables you to try various scenarios before finalizing a process plan. You can associate multiple routing plans with a process plan. Consider a scenario where you want to localize or run a process plan in your plant. You have two ways to evaluate the process plan for the time and cost. In such a case, a routing plan object is beneficial. You can create two routing plans to analyze and validate various structures or plans. You can use these two routing plans to perform localization in two different ways, and use the other routing plan to perform localization in another way. For the first routing plan, you open the routing plan in Visualization, place the tools, check the ergonomic strategy, perform other tasks, and then get a result. You can perform similar tasks for the other routing plan. Then, you can compare the results to determine which routing plan is better for your business needs. This analysis helps in optimizing the process plan.

• You can use a routing plan as a production version. A routing plan determines which process plan should be used with which BOM for a specified quantity in a specific plant.

• A routing plan allows you to optimize the flow and manage the artifacts. For example, documents, processing resources, tools, and so on.

• Enables you to try different scenarios before the actual production.

• Proactively validates the manufacturability of product designs, and reduces errors between engineering and production.

• Significantly reduces the time and cost spent on manufacturing activities.

• Improves productivity and user experience. With improved productivity and usability, it is now easier to visualize an actual manufacturing line that includes various manufacturing entities.